Author: ppadmin

This month the work to improve my CW starts in earnest. I started my Level 2 CW Ops Academy training and it’s amazing how quickly you can progress with daily practice and a little guidance. The guidance is excellent and my ‘class’ are a great bunch. It’s amazing how we all have similar experiences and challenges with […]

SOTABeams Go4Low overview A hackspace has started up near me so I’ve immediately joined to support them. With the realisation that I now have workshop machines available to me I started thinking about a radio project to make the most of this. I’m in the process of designing a Hellschreiber copy starting with the printer. Cool! I’m currently sourcing […]

It Summer vacation time so managed to squeeze in a couple of SOTA summits; Mynydd Carningli (GW/MW-033) in Wales. I hiked up from the waters edge in Parrog making this a half days activation. There’s very little space at the summit and a school outing had taken over when I arrived so I had to […]

Not a huge amount of radio going on this month although I did take the KX1 and a random wire with me to Italy and managed to work back to the UK…thanks G4XRV. I gave a presentation to the Reading & District Amateur Radio Club on promoting the hobby. The Reading Club has some really […]

This month I tweaked the tuning of my SOTA linked dipole to give me greater coverage on 40m. I now have an SWR of <1.7:1 across 20, 30 & 40m…now I’m ready for some Summer SOTA action :o) I’ve managed to achieved both my Worked all @lids (WALIDS) Bronze award and collected my first FISTS Millionaire […]

Hurrah, it’s EUCW QRS week again so you should hear me calling CQ between 12 – 14wpm this week and I’m happy to slow down more or repeat things as many times as you need :o) The highlight this month was the @lids_cw CW Boot Camp which was held on the 16th April in Bristol. Contrary to the title […]